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Would you believe 50-year-old Jennifer Lopez could be a stripper? After a very hyped trailer, Hustlers delivers big time while giving you the unexpected. It jumps from one genre to another  and when you leave the theater there is some real satisfaction, quite the rare experience for moviegoers these days.

In Hustlers a group of New York City strippers gets together in order to con their to Wall Street clientele. And if you feel like this is something a bit out of the realm of norm the producers of the flick want you to know that the movie is based on an article that ran in New York Magazine back in 2015.

Statistically speaking, Lopez has been the only Latina lead (aged 45 or over) in top grossing movies since 2007, Hustlers might just be the turning point her career. She gives one of her best performances yet. Her depiction of a hardworking single mother struggling to make ends meet is stunning.

“Hustlers” humanizes the women at its center giving them a surprising level of emotional depth and shows us that there are more than one kind of story worth telling about women, money and sex. Jennifer Lopez gives a grounded and natural yet electrifying screen performance in a film about anger and sadness. A deserving Thumbs Up!

After It (Chapter One) became such a mega hit, earning more than $700 million two years ago, bringing back the audiences to Chapter Two, shouldn’t have proven a too big of a challenge, even its running time being two-hours-and-forty-nine-minutes. It: Chapter Two is much longer than any horror flick should be, but it does build up to something you can at least say is significant.

The story begins to unfold twenty-seven years after the group of friends sent Pennywise to a whatever parallel universe it came from, now our unlikely heroes have to make good on the blood oath they took all those years ago…

You would have expected Argentinian director, Andrés Muschietti, to have used the cache he earned in Tinseltown with the first movie to at least start some type of TV franchise on one of the streaming services, but he decided to go with his own moral compass, defying conventional Hollywood wisdom, as he recognized the value of… closure.

This movie is in a way dedicated to all of us small-town escapees, whose lives evolved much more than the place that we left behind. Getting closure, is the key and… exactly, if anybody cares to remember, what over thirty years ago the original Stephen King novel was all about – our fear in life of closure.

Personally, I just would want to know if this was the last we’ve seen of that creepy clown, the answer probably depends on how much money the movie will make at the box office. This is an undecided, very fearful, Thumbs in the Middle!

Is third time a charm for Gerard Butler as Secret Service agent, Mike Banning, saving the President of the Untied States?
After Aaron Eckhart portrayed the Prez in Olympus Has Fallen (in 2013) and London Has Fallen (in 2016), in Angel it is now time for a (real) Oscar winner to step in: Morgan Freeman is THE president… not that God forbid the flick was elevated by his presence to anything else but just another Bourne knockoff!

This feels like a typical throwaway piece. By the time it’s over, it’s already fallen from your memory. It will keep you entertained for a couple of hours on an August night, and if that’s all it’s aiming for. Mission accomplished.

Angel Has Fallen plays out exactly as you would expect it to from the beginning to the end. There seems to be no thrill to this thriller. Nor is there any nuance to the characters. It has cliched action scenes once-made very popular by TV.